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From the known zeal and activity of the Members however, we 

 may look forward with interest to the fruits of their enquiries. 



To the Report of the Meteorological Committee which has 

 been handed to us, we have much pleasure in calling your atten- 

 tion, containing as it does many interesting remarks and sugges- 

 tions. 



The Treasurer's Statement of accounts is satisfactory, but as 

 there|isWmuch to be accomplished much is required — and not 

 least/ the hearty co-operation of all in maintaining the Society 

 in full operation. 



The receipts during the past }^ear have been ... £ 49 5 

 and the expenditure has amounted to £45 3 5 J 



leaving a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of £ 8 19 11 j 

 the balance from the preceding year having been. . £ 4 18 5 



From the funds of the Society a sum of £ 10 has been placed 

 at the disposal of the Meteorological Committee for the purchase 

 of Instruments : £ 20 have also been appropriated to the pur- 

 chase of books for the Library of the Society. 



In conclusion, your Committee would urge their hearty co- 

 operation of all friendly to the objects of the Society, and in the 

 words of a former Report, they still trust they may anticipate 

 for the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, a long 

 course of prosperity and usefulness, and that it will be instru- 

 mental in adding to the stores of knowledge which are now being- 

 daily acquired respecting Ceylon and other parts of Asia, and 

 conducing to the developement of the resources of this Island. 



Resolved^-Th&t the Report now read, be received and adopted. 



J. Capper, Esq. Secretary of the Meteorological Committee 

 then read the Report of that Committee, as follows : 



Report of the Meteorological Committee. 



The present period being the close of the second year of the 

 Society's existence, and also terminating the first year of this 

 Committee's appointment, it is necessary that they should place 

 before the Society some record of their proceedings. 



It could be wished that there had been more to report than is 

 the case, still your Committee, despite the present meagre fruits 

 of their first labors, will look forward to another twelve months 

 in the confident hope that something more practical and useful 

 will be the result of their enquiries. 



Your Committee cannot but feel it to be matter of deep regret 

 that so little has hitherto been done to observe, and so much less 

 to record the phenomena of the atmosphere, in a locality which 

 viewed in reference to the great geographical features of the 

 terraqueous globe, is so highly interesting as the southern coast 

 of Ceylon. 



